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Edward Learborn May 12,Highgatenear London, England—died January 29,San RemoItalyEnglish landscape painter who is more widely known as the writer of an original kind of nonsense verse and as the popularizer of the limerick. His true genius is apparent in his nonsense poems, which portray a world of fantastic creatures in nonsense words, often suggesting a deep underlying sense of melancholy. Their quality is matched, especially in the limericks, by that of his engaging pen-and-ink drawings.
The youngest of 21 children, Lear was brought up by his eldest sister, Ann, and from age 15 earned his living by drawing. In he decided to become a landscape painter. Lear suffered all his life from epilepsy and melancholia. After he lived mainly abroad.
An indefatigable worker, he produced innumerable pen and watercolour sketches of great topographical accuracy. He worked these up into the carefully finished watercolours and large oil paintings that were his financial mainstay. During his nomadic life he lived, among other places, at RomeCorfu, and, finally, with his celebrated cat, Foss, at San Remo.
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